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Becoming villagers : comparing early village societies / edited by Matthew S. Bandy and Jake R. Fox.

Format Book and Print
Publication InfoTucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2010.
Descriptionix, 351 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorBandy, Matthew S.
Other author/creatorFox, Jake R., 1970-
Other author/creatorSociety for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting (71st : 2006 : San Juan, P.R.)
Other author/creatorAmerind Foundation.
Series Amerind studies in archaeology ; v. 6
Amerind studies in archaeology v. 6. ^A792415
Contents Becoming villagers : the evolution of early village societies / Matthew S. Bandy and Jake R. Fox -- pt. 1. Population growth and historical process. Population growth, village fissioning, and alternative early village trajectories / Matthew S. Bandy ; A scale model of seven hundred years of farming settlements in southwestern Colorado / Timothy A. Kohler and Mark D. Varien ; "Great expectations," or, The inevitable collapse of the early Neolithic in the Near East / Nigel Goring-Morris and Anna Belfer-Cohen -- pt. 2. Constructing early villages. "Ritualization" in early village society : the case of the Lake Titicaca Basin formative / Amanda B. Cohen ; The sacred and the secular revisited : the essential tensions of early village society in the southeastern United States / Thomas Pluckhahn ; Substantial structures, few people, and the question of early villages in the Mimbres region of the North American Southwest / Patricia A. Gilman ; Sea changes in stable communities : what do small changes in practices at Çatalhöyük and Chiripa imply about community making? / Christine A. Hastorf -- pt. 3. Developmental trajectories of early village societies. The emergence of early villages in the American Southwest : cultural issues and historical perspectives / Richard H. Wilshusen and James M. Potter ; A persistent early village settlement system on the Bolivian southern Altiplano / Jake R. Fox ; First towns in the Americas : searching for agriculture, population growth, and other enabling conditions / John E. Clark, Jon L. Gibson, and James Zeidler ; The evolution of early Yangshao period village organization in the middle reaches of northern China's Yellow River Valley / Christian E. Peterson and Gideon Shelach.
General noteOutgrowth of a symposium at the 2006 Society for American Archaeology meetings in San Juan, and of a seminar at the Amerind Foundation. Cf. pref.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [277]-336) and index.
LCCN 2010011948
ISBN9780816529018 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0816529019 (cloth : alk. paper)

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